UNDERTALIA

Romano was troubled. Veneziano (Italy) hadn't returned from his meeting with someone he said he knew. Romano knew it was only thirty minutes. But he was still worried. Even though he was rough with his brother, he had it in his heart to care for his weak little brother. Aww, what a nice guy.

Romano rubbed his forehead, exasperated.

"Damn it! Chigi!" He cursed. "Where the hell is that cursed brother of mine?!" He stormed around the house for a bit before sighing. "Alright… Romano…" He tried to calm down and it worked for three seconds before he burst into anger and slammed his palms into the wall, and then bounced back, rubbing his sore palms.

He heard the door open.

"About time-!" Romano was about to say something horrible but he paused, looking at the girl that his brother had brought back with him. He gaped at the girl, and then she said,

"Um, hi… I'm Snowdin." She outstretched a hand. Romano shook it.

"Vene... I hope you're ready for some explaining," Romano huffed, shaking his head.

"Veh~ where do I even start?" Italy said bashfully. "Well… I met Snowdin and her friends a little while ago. They come from a place called the Underground."

"I met someone a little while ago, too…" Romano mumbled. He explained the encounter with the girl who had punched him in the lip. "She seemed so angry, too…"

"I know her!" Snowdin said immediately. "Her name is Ending Screen! She's really super edgy!"

"Edgy is one way to put it…" Romano grumbled, remembering the girl's anger most of all. He sighed. "Alright. Is there anything else you want to say?"

Italy's face turned red but he said nothing. Romano quickly located that Italy's curl had formed a small heart and he facepalmed. "Go ahead. Have fun with Snowdin."

"Eh? Fratello, I-"

"No buts, brother. I'm doing something nice for you. Take it before I regret it." He put his hands on Snowdin's shoulders. "Take care of him."

Snowdin's face turned a bright shade of red. Romano smirked slightly before shoving Snowdin away. "Move it, you're making me sick."

[…]

Hotlands was in a bit of a dilemma. She saw Capitol standing next to a taller man, nope, scratch that, ginormous tall man with a strangely eerie smile and a large white scarf.

"Capitol, who's he?" Hotlands managed to stammer.

"Oh, this is Russia. When we first went up to the Aboveground, he was called Muscovy," said Capitol.

"Ohhh…" Hotlands said. "Okay. Got it. Nice to meet you, Russia," Hotlands bowed shortly, uncomfortable with showing her neck to the man. She had a sneaking suspicion he could snap it really, really easily. So she smiled slightly and gritted her teeth in a polite manner.

CORE, True-Lab, and Lab had went out on an outing with the FACE family, so Hotlands didn't worry about that. She had to focus on what Capitol had for her.

"So, why did you want me here in the first place?" Hotlands crossed her arms.

"Well, it's to talk," Capitol said. She explained the whole thing about meeting Russia. Russia looked modest for a huge giant, so Hotlands began to relax and explained the whole FACE family debacle.

"Who's Canada?" Capitol asked.

"Oh, it's the boy I sit on during meetings," Russia explained. "It's like magic… I don't know how he gets there, da?"

"Um…" Hotlands suddenly felt uncomfortable. "Are we going to go back to the underground, Capitol?"

"To be honest, I don't know. I guess we'll have to speak with Ebott, and she's with Mirage and Ending Screen right now, journeying some place or other," explained Capitol.

"With the two brats?" asked Hotlands.

"I guess you could call them brats…" Capitol shrugged. "But I guess Hopes & Dreams and Nightmare can't really help but be annoying."

"Can't help…" Hotlands snorted. "They almost blew me up."

"You have a handful on your shoulders, da?" Russia patted Hotlands on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Russia, but that made no sense," Hotlands said. "A handful on my shoulders?"

Russia shrugged. "English is not my first language. Its grammar is very confusing," he explained. "So I apologize for that."

"It's okay," Hotlands said. "How is your English so fluent?"

"I am a country. I have my ways," Russia said. "Mostly America and that jerk Britain, but I learned on my own some."

"Ah, I see…" Hotlands grumbled. "Okay. How did you meet Capital here?" She pointed at the blond-haired personification, who blushed slightly.

"We met at a sunflower shop," Russia explained. "It was strange to find someone who loved the golden flowers as I do, so we got along."

"Oh…" said Hotlands. "Well, that's great for the both of you."

"Thanks…" Capital said softly.

[…]

Ending Screen, Mirage, Mt. Ebott, and the ever bickering Hopes and Dreams and Nightmare were at a small café eating together. At least, Mirage and Mt. Ebott were. Ending Screen was being super edgy as usual while Hopes and Dreams were tossing food at each other. Nightmare's Venus Flytrap hand was hungrily eating candy while Nightmare bickered. It was somewhat annoying for Ending Screen to be splattered with some food from whatever that Hopes and Dreams was eating, but she endured it.

For now.

Romano was storming towards the café. It was his resting place, but this time he noticed Ending Screen and Ending Screen noticed him and she got up.

"It's you," she huffed.

Mirage looked up from her teacup. A muffin slapped her in the face and then Mirage shot a warning glance towards Hopes and Dreams. "You know that guy?" Mirage asked after a sip of tea.

"We-a literally bumped into each other," Romano said blandly.

"About what happened."

"And then you punched me in the face."

"Exactly."

"Top notch," Mt. Ebott giggled. "That's our Ending Screen, ultimate face-puncher and super edgy!"

"What?" Ending Screen glared. "What did you say?"

"Nothing. How about that nice boy over there come have a cup of tea with us?" Mt. Ebott pointed at Romano.

There goes the relaxing day I had in mind…. Romano mumbled in his head.

"Sure," he said.

Mucho shippo